Comments | likecharity: found a way to understand the time you're burning

likecharity

found a way to understand the time you're burning

Feb 26, 2010 01:48

Why does Skins do this to me? It's pretty much always good, often great, and then every now and then an episode comes along that just makes me feel like I'm on a rollercoaster and the whole thing is sort of terrifying and amazing and horrible and wonderful, and at the end I just feel like a wreck. This episode reminded me a lot of Effy's episode ( Read more... )

okay i'm hysterical, ! [ship] skins: cook/freddie, this is why i love skins, i just have a lot of feelings, ! [character] skins: freddie, ! [character] skins: effy

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letmypidgeonsgo February 26 2010, 04:05:14 UTC

Someone said one of her collage photos was of Tony, but I have to rewatch to check.

As someone who's been in cosmetology school, I adored Karen here, b/c that's *so* a real thing! After using mannequins for forever you just desperately want to practice on a real person (not to mention he needed a haircut LOL)!

I SO WANTED ANOTHER COOK/FREDDIE KISS AT THE END!! Gah! *is shameless*

ILU so much right now cos your opinions of this one are exactly the same as mine :D

likecharity February 27 2010, 16:35:00 UTC

It was! I got really excited but it was just pictures of Tony, her Mum, and her Dad, all attached to Freddie's picture with lines. Still, at least that's SOMETHING. I just thought it was crazy there wasn't any mention of him.

Lol, aww! Poor Karen.

ME TOO. It actually seemed like it was going to happen, I think I was like, holding my breath. But all the hugging and clutching was good enough, I suppose.

Yay! :D I'm so glad, I feel like my opinions on episodes hardly ever match anyone else's.

I feel like a traitor, but... lularose February 26 2010, 04:25:23 UTC

Some of my Ceffy love has been moved over to Freffy.

Re: I feel like a traitor, but... likecharity February 27 2010, 16:35:50 UTC

:O

Lol, that didn't happen to me, but I definitely feel like I understand the pairing more after that episode, so I don't blame you. Not too much, anyway. ;)

Re: I feel like a traitor, but... likecharity February 27 2010, 16:36:39 UTC

:O

Lol, that didn't happen with me, but I definitely understand the pairing more than I did before, so I don't blame you. Not too much, anyway. ;)

Re: I feel like a traitor, but... lularose February 28 2010, 02:00:36 UTC

Yeah, that's a better way to phrase it, I'm still a ceffy whore, but I finally understand Freffy as a whole. Freddie got a lot of my respect after his ep.

xthe_ingenue February 26 2010, 05:43:31 UTC

the fact that there was not even a MENTION of tony was the worst thing about this episode, IMO. it's probably one of the most unrealistic things skins could ever do, in terms of characters, to not even have anthea like... calling him in the background or something.

freffy is bad enough. i can't ever forgive them for not even talking about tony when effy just tried to kill herself.

likecharity February 27 2010, 16:38:07 UTC

I know. >:( It's so weird, too, because I remember reading a spoiler AGES ago that said something like, Effy's relationship with Tony would be mentioned. So maybe it'll happen later? I don't know. They definitely could have had Anthea on the phone with him in the background. Sigh.

xthe_ingenue February 27 2010, 16:46:34 UTC

yeah, i read that too. maybe her creepy doctor is going to ask her about him.

anonymous February 26 2010, 13:56:01 UTC

"I'm still questioning why it's Freddie she cares about, that's the one thing that doesn't seem to match up to me"

hm, id think it makes some sense... freddie had a mother who suffered from a mental illness that resembles effys pretty much. so somehow she might have sensed something that was something only to be sensed and not seen (by us, the watchers) or others, you know?
anyhow, thats just what popped up in my mind when we learned about freddies mother. plus, effy seems to be struggling with the side of her that cares so much it hurts and the side that tries desperately to hide exactly that. freddie, on the other hand, is in some sort of similar situation seeing as 1) his mother killed herself and 2) he wants to be a 'normal' carefree person.

"IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT HARD TO SLIP IN A BRIEF MENTION, WRITERS"

well, at least there was a photo of him on Eff's collage. so, that's something!

:)

i do enjoy your ep. comments!

likecharity February 27 2010, 16:39:39 UTC

I guess that works, yeah. I think the fact that Freddie's mother was mentally ill and killed herself has done SO MUCH for his character, somehow. Like, it's just one detail, but it's changed the way I look at him. And at his connection to Effy. I kind of like the idea of Effy sensing something in him that she connected to, as well.

Yeah, I guess it's something!

:)

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likecharity February 27 2010, 16:42:21 UTC

Haha, I definitely feel like I understand him more now. It's interesting that you figured him out so early. I feel kind of bad that I assumed it was lazy writing and that they hadn't developed his character enough, because the Skins writers NEVER DO THAT. Even characters that start out seeming awful (Cook, Katie) you end up liking to some extent.

I still don't properly LIKE him, and there are some things about his character that I don't think can be excused by this extra detail (how judgemental he seemed to be of Effy last season), but yeah, I totally understand him more and I'm glad.